Word: pursuers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
...Long Voyage Home look like a studio piece. This realism of the sea is shot through with the realism of sea war. Terror is in the form of ships, the shapes of guns and conning towers. It is in the fog which hides the pursued, but also hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even in the air, electric with the radio waves that may mean safety, may mean destruction. And there are terrifying shots-the sinking of a submarine, shells bursting on deck armor that squirts and sizzles like a thousand molten firecrackers...
...facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented with the leit-motif system, but this failed because it gave rise to some very absurd effects, such as that of a chase in which the music switched back from the pursued to the pursuer with every move of the camera. The leit-motif was abused, rather than used by composers for greater unity...
...down to tiffin in a German tea shop on Bubbling Well Road. Up stepped a stranger, whipped out two guns, and pumped four shots into Samuel Chang's back. Then the assassin rushed into the street, followed by another patron. Turning, he put two bullets in his pursuer's stomach, and fled. Newsman Chang died instantly, his champion (a Pole named Vladislav Krasson) an hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, and agency superintendent of Owner Starr...
...were brought back aboard, the Washington sighted another submarine. Taking no chances on his blinker this time, anxious Captain Manning worked an old sea trick by turning tail on the sub at such an angle that the Washington sailed toward the sun and its rays blinded the possible pursuer, which soon disappeared...